How To!: Command a Room

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Yuzuha has been interviewing people for six years. She's a journalist based in Japan who writes about business and technology but has dreamed of working in broadcast, interviewing people for an audience. Her first challenge is coming sooner than she expected. Yuzuha was asked to moderate a panel at a big conference in Tokyo. She wants to know how to speak with confidence, capture an audience, and ensure her questions get answered without putting on a fake persona. On this episode of How To!, Amanda Ripley brings on journalist Meghna Chakrabarti. Meghna is the host of On Point, a public radio show, where she is known for her artful live interviews that help her audience make sense of the world. Meghna has some wonderful advice for Yuzuha (and all of us) on how to harness your voice and ensure you're advocating for your audience.

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0:29.8	Hi, Magna, how are you? I'm doing well. Thank you for thinking of me. Oh my God. Thank
0:36.5	you for doing this. Well, you are one of my favorite guests ever. Oh, thank you. And also,
0:42.1	this will be such a delightful turn, because we just got off the air talking about like pathological
0:46.9	liars and how they end up becoming members of Congress and presidents. And it's just like
0:51.3	it was so depressing. It was the opposite of the kind of journalism that I promised you
0:54.8	would be too. Welcome to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. Today, we're going to basically talk about
1:05.4	the opposite of pathological liars who get elected into office. We're going to talk
1:09.7	about regular people who need to speak in front of a large audience for whatever reason.
1:15.8	People who want to be taken seriously without pretending to be someone they're not.
1:21.8	My name is Yuzuha and I'm a journalist based in Japan and I have been working in this field
1:28.3	for 60 years mainly in digital and I cover business and technology. You may have actually
1:35.0	come across Yuzuha's work in outlets like Reuters or the BBC or news picks. And although
1:40.6	she currently works with the written word, she'd love to do more with the spoken word.
1:47.2	I think one of the reasons why I love audio is that I feel this intimacy. But for me,
1:53.5	broadcast is something for the boys who has the appearance, who has the confidence. I've
1:59.8	always felt I'm not good enough for this. And did you come up with that on your own
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